Saturday, June 23, 2007

Flowers are in full bloom

I started making canes. Yeh, since I have learned so much by helping CAT in her class, I thought I should at least try to make something. Just petals, not the whole flower, so that I can build each flower individually and I can have a 3D flower instead of a flat one. Most canes were made with translucent Polymer clay on the outside but I covered mine with black clay and burnished it into black colored beads. Look Ma, no halo. I do like the one that I did not burnish the petal down into the background. Pretty cool textured beads. I also start using the Rhinestones that I got from my friend Scott.

FUN FACT & TIPS:Thai people are very superstitious. There are things that are considered to be bad luck, such as; we do not sleep with our head pointed to the west. It is the position for the death people. You only wear Black when there is Death in the family. In the old day, when you first visit the newborn baby, you cannot say that the baby is so cute, you have to say how ugly it is to prevent the ghost from stealing it away from the mom. You also do not name the baby before it is born. I'm not sure the new generation still believes in all those things any more. I thought it might be interesting to know.

Welcome toSILASTONES; my Polymer Clay World.Here you will find pictures of my work, how the ideas came about and how I put them into works. I also have tutorial blog to show you step-by-step of how I made my Polymer Clay beads. Also another blog where you can read all about my daughter, Ada..
Thanks for stopping by.
Ponsawan

P.S. These days, I spend most of my time taking care of my daughter, Ada who was in a car accident on March, 2008. I haven't posted here for a while but will try to share my work here again, as much as I can.

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I started making Polymer clay beads in 2005. I sold my first batch and started sending them out to the bead stores and bead shows. I started a blog to share my experieces with polymer clay and started a tutorial blog to show how I make some of my beads.